Waist-line garment-supporter.



A. A. ROBERTS.

WAIST LINE GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION man Nov.4, 19:1.

1,152,121. Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

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Specification of-Le ttersPatenta t t 3 15 5 Applicationfiled November, 1911. Seria1No,658,4 82.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALICE A. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Waist-Line Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This device is intended as a simple, cheap and easily operable means for holding down a shirt waist and supporting a skirt.

In producing my device I have labored to make it as simple as possible without sacrificing strength, or efficiency, and to this end I have provided but two principal parts, one a flexible member and the other a metallic fastener to be used as a securing means therefor. The construction of these separate parts and their operation as well as other new and novel features will appear as the specification progresses.

The following is what I consider the best means of carrying out this invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, in which:

Figure '1 is in elevation, partly in perspective, it shows the completed device in operation. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of certain parts of the device.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.-

The member 1, which should be of a length sufficient to pass around the waist of any person who would be apt to wear the device, must be flexible and I may use a piece of unusually strong ribbon, but I prefer to use a flattened tubular tape not unlike a corset or shoe lacing.

The metallic fastening member 2, I have made of flat brass, though it may be of steel. Should steel be used it should be carefully nickeled so as to guard against rust.

The flat metallic member 2 is provided with a central circular perforation 3, of a diameter equal to the width of the tape 1 or approximately so, a square perforation 1, near one end, and an inwardly projecting slot 5 near the other end, which assist in forming the head or hook 6. The outline of this metallic member may be somewhat different than that shown, but I prefer that it shall be artistically curved and that it shall have all corners rounded.

I pass one end of the flexiblev member2 through the square perforation 1, and fold thisend of the flexible member back upon the body of the member for a short distance, securing it there by a metallic clamp or staple 7. The free end of the flexible member is then passed around the body at the waist line, and over the shirt waist. This free end is then passed outward through the circular perforation 3, and pulled until the desirable tightness is obtained. A downward movement of the hand causes the free end of the flexible member, or a part thereof to pass into the slot 5 and behind the head 6, and the device is secured.

Care should be taken that the free end or portion be forced downward to a sufficient extent to cause it to be frictionally and securely retained between the back face of the member 2 and the adjacent section of the taut or securing portion of the member 1, in this manner the free end is reliably secured. When so secured it will be noted that the perforation 3so retains that portion of the flexible member which passes therethrough that any upward movement of that portion of the flexible member which passes through theslot 5, which would tend to loosen the flexible member in the slot is prevented.

To loosen the device it is only necessary to lift the free end of the flexible member until it is disengaged from the slot 5.

A means may be provided for supporting the skirt and such a means may be a safety pin shown arranged upon the back portion or at about mid-length of the flexible member 2. The pin portion of which may be passed through an adjacent portion of a skirt in an obvious manner.

Modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claim without departing from theprinciple or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention what I claim and desire to secure" into and through another perforation of a diameter approximately equal to the width of said flexible member, the free end of said flexible member being adapted to be engaged of New York, and State of New York, this by a transverse movement into said slot and 24th day of October, 1911, in the presence to be bound between said rigid member and of two Witnesses. an adjacent section of the securing portion ALICE A. ROBERTS. 5 of said flexible member for the purpose set forth.

Signed at New York'city, in the county Witnesses:

ARTHUR PHELPS MARK, G. E. STERRITTE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, I). 0. 

